Project 7, 2019

An exhibition with Stepping Stone Press in Durban, South Africa curated by Greg Hayes.

This work scrutinizes utilitarian architecture through walking, structures on Oahu that have some kind of public or civil function, existing as part of the fabric of the city. This project maps the radically changing sites and topographies that have existing structures, which often stand alone in the landscape as unorthodox minimal references to certain stylistic elements that preface utilitarianism. By reducing these structures to their formal elements, my works create an abstract dialogue with cycles of change and transformation of preexisting structures and localities. It is an attempt to make sense of a place without always knowing exactly everything about that place. The aim of this project is to ask questions about land use, public structures, memorialization of demolished structures, and the visual aesthetics of growth and decay in urban environments. Maquette sculptures made in wax line the walls of the space flanked by drawings on carbon paper that build a sequence of strata on the paper by scratching into the surface. This slow process of mark making is a process similar to dry plate etching, meditative long-term works that time to produce.